The webOS developer community leaps ahead — Today, Palm expanded the Mojo SDK program for webOS, announcing that a broad group of developers will be provided with the software development kit to create applications for the Palm Pre phone (as well as other future devices running webOS).

First Impressions of the New BlackBerry App Store — There have long been third-party programs for the BlackBerry, but in light of Apple's enormous success with an easy, built-in App Store for the iPhone, Research in Motion today unveiled its own similar store, called BlackBerry App World.

Google uncloaks once-secret server — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency.

Hulu begins encrypting HTML content to thwart non-browser apps — It looks like Hulu's trying yet another ill-fated tactic to keep its content restricted to traditional browsers and off things like Boxee — TunerFreeMCE's Martin Millmore says Hulu's HTML is now encrypted at the source and then decrypted using Javascript on the client.

Is Twitter Turning Into MySpace? — Editor's note: The following guest post was written by Mrinal Desai, who was an early employee of LinkedIn before he co-founded CrossLoop, a startup funded by El Dorado and Venrock. You can follow him on Twitter. — I try and test many social services …

Is Office Finally Coming To The iPhone? — I'm here at the Web 2.0 Expo keynote, where Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Division, hinted that we may be seeing Microsoft Office make its way to the iPhone some time soon. After his interviewer Tim O'Reilly caught him on the comment …

Intel Turns Over Its Linux Operating System — Intel's short run as an operating system maker has come to an end. — On Thursday, the non-profit Linux Foundation plans to announce that it will take over the “stewardship” of the Moblin project from Intel.

Wired.com ‘Gutted’ in Conde Layoffs — More detail on the layoffs at Conde Nast Digital today (which is not an April Fool's joke, okay): Wired.com was reportedly hit hard. Internal turf war? — SAI says that Wired.com was “gutted.” We've heard the same, although exact numbers are hard to come by …

Microsoft Looks to JWT to Market New Search Engine — Web Giant Expected to Spend Up to $100 Million in Bid to Win Share From Google, Yahoo — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Can Microsoft market its way out of the search basement? Probably not, but it's going to try, entrusting roster agency JWT …

Sales of Start-Ups Plummet, Along With Prices — Venture-backed start-ups hoping to go public or get acquired had a tough first quarter, according to data released Wednesday. — So you'd think that with start-up valuations down, corporate acquirers could be jumping on opportunities.

Complex — “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”

Verizon Wireless: More E-book Readers May Be Coming — Yardena Arar — Are e-book readers going to be the next big thing in wireless? Verizon Wireless chief executive Lowell McAdam said “four or five” of them are in various stages of development in the company's open development labs.

Verizon wants its software on mobile phones — LAS VEGAS - Verizon Wireless doesn't care who emerges from the coming mobile operating system wars because no matter who wins, Verizon will make sure its software runs on top of that operating system. — “I don't think I need to bet on an operating system …

Net traffic down on first day of Swedish antipiracy law — This post was updated at 2:30 p.m. PDT Wednesday with new information about Internet traffic. — The same day a new antipiracy law went into effect in Sweden, Internet traffic took a dive and five audio book publishers went after an alleged illegal file sharer in court.

Gmail: Expect bigger changes in next 5 years — Five years ago, Gmail launched with a splash big enough that many thought it was an April 1 joke: an entire gigabyte of online storage. — Larger online e-mail rivals Hotmail and Yahoo Mail quickly matched that advantage, but in the meantime …

Receiving video MMS works on iPhone OS 3.0? — Ever since the iPhone 3.0 beta was released, only the lucky and skilled have managed to enable MMS on their iPhones. It's not that it's impossible to do, you just have to know your way around the OS and do some modifications, enter settings, and that sort of stuff.

Nokia dismisses prospects of WiMax as wireless standard — Nokia has dismissed the prospects of the WiMax wireless mobile standard, claiming it is doomed to meet the same fate as Betamax, the video format that lost out to VHS in a war over technology standards in the 1970s and 1980s.

eBay Gets Into the App Platform Game — Project Echo paves the way for eBay Selling Manager to become a platform where developers can build and sell their merchant tools. — eBay is a marketplace for buyers, sellers and ... developers? — Today, the online auction giant officially launched …

Facebook's Problem is the Management — Shockwaves were felt throughout Silicon Valley when the social networking site announced that one of its star hires, CFO Gideon Yu, had been fired. Although Facebook claims that it is looking for someone with “public company experience,” …

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